[cmake-developers] VS 2010/MSbuild's custom build tool issues and a proposal

[James Bigler]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:03 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:55 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 21, 2011 3:41 PM, "Brad King" <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On 11/21/2011 3:33 PM, James Bigler wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com<mailto:
>>> brad.king at kitware.com>> wrote:
>>> >>    On 11/18/2011 12:50 PM, James Bigler wrote:
>>> >>        What I'm envisioning is developing a new custom build tool,
>>> >>        call it CMake Custom Command (or CCC for short)
>>> >>
>>> >>    Would the custom commands in the project files just invoke this
>>> tool on every build?
>>> >>
>>> >> Yes, any custom command in the project would invoke the same rule
>>> file.
>>> >
>>> > > Think of it as replacing VS's "interesting" custom build command
>>> rule with our own.
>>> >
>>> > I've thought about this idea a few times before in the context of
>>> custom
>>> > commands with build-time implicit dependency scanning.  It's
>>> essentially
>>> > a "make" tool, isn't it?  Since "nmake" always comes with VS, perhaps
>>> it
>>> > can be utilized for this.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> That is kind of what we do with xcode and make.  Does nmake install with
>>> express versions?
>>>
>> This page seems to suggest so, but I'm having trouble determining this
>> for certain, and I don't want to install it for fear of it messing up my
>> existing VS installations.
>>
>>
>>
> Forgot the link:
>
> http://www.tidytutorials.com/2009/08/nmake-makefile-tutorial-and-example.html
>

Ah, here's the definitive answer:

For VS 2010, yes it comes with EE.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx

For VS 2008, yes it comes with EE
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9%28v=VS.90%29.aspx

For VS 2005, yes it comes with EE
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9%28v=VS.80%29.aspx

James
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